Sentence Examples

For the first time in their history, they stood a real chance of turning a sordid love story into a pure one.

Obviously they thought there was something sordid to hide.

His vices were rather of the sordid than of the satanic order.

It was not a reaction the Deans expected when Effie read the sordid confirmation her great aunt was a prostitute and carrying on an adulterous affair.

Because of the futility and sordid intrigues which characterized the independent Military Government at Canton, he, whose reputation in 1912 had stood high at home and abroad, came gradually to be regarded as an irreconcilable conspirator, whose personal ambitions were largely responsible for the continuance of the senseless civil strife between the North and the South.